two strangers on bikes

[Nasturtium]

I thought this was a fun image to retouch and thought others might like to play with it

Enjoy!

- Nancy

[I'm very shy about street photography but thank goodness DH is not ]

[aartist]

Just thought they would be less strangers to each other if they were a little closer in physical proximity. Or not. Also, if they are closer, that should make them sit up a little straighter, along with the buildings.

[lynn55]

That great editing.

I created glowing edges ,saturation and I did painting faces on mask layer.

[pavel123]

Very nice capture.
Was the photo taken in Amsterdam?

[Nasturtium]

aartist-that's terrific! I'm all for togetherness
lynn55-how trippy :-)
pavel123-Yes. We're Americans living in the Netherlands. You're render has a nice illustration/graphic quality to it

[0lBaldy]

A bit of DAP Charcoal blended in

Beep - Beep

[lkroll]

Enjoyed the play Nancy; thanks for sharing.

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by Nasturtium

pavel123-Yes. We're Americans living in the Netherlands.

I had a stopover in Amsterdam for a couple of days on my way to Canada last spring. I do hope to come back some time, really liked the city.

Pavel

[MiningArt]

An enhanced embossed version. Was the shot staged or impromptu?

[Nasturtium]

Pavel - Yes it's a very pretty city.
John - wow! That one's interesting. They were just pedaling by so impromptu

[Nasturtium]

Lyle-I think you created yet another new genre! You know in a few hundred years they'll be teaching Ikroll innovation in art school :-)

[secretagents]

Some pseudo lucis followed by edge enhancement. Nothing too terrible I guess and quality has degraded quite badly compressing to jpeg

[lkroll]

Originally Posted by Nasturtium

Lyle-I think you created yet another new genre! You know in a few hundred years they'll be teaching Ikroll innovation in art school :-)

lol

My wealth and contributions will be greater when dead then alive eh? lol

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by lkroll

lol
My wealth and contributions will be greater when dead then alive eh? lol

You do know that's typical for an artist, don't you

[pavel123]

Originally Posted by secretagents

Some pseudo lucis followed by edge enhancement. Nothing too terrible I guess and quality has degraded quite badly compressing to jpeg

Nice effect, really like the result.

[secretagents]

Cool, thanks for the compliment

[Nasturtium]

secretagents - your version is very 'the new art' meaning it's a pretty cool mix of styles

[secretagents]

Ah, thanks

I have made another version, nothing too special and quite similar to the other one but as you like the style I am attaching it

[MiningArt]

Finished up with the Old Master in Impressionist.

[Nasturtium]

secretagents - I like that drawn/outlined effect. I've ended up with that look by accident a few times and wish I knew how to create it deliberately. The selective color really focuses the eye
John - Our quest for realistic brush strokes has taken us to the far corners of cyber space, no? I like how the strokes follow the contours of the image - did you make a custom brush strokes file first? If so was it with Photosketcher?

[MiningArt]

Originally Posted by Nasturtium

John - Our quest for realistic brush strokes has taken us to the far corners of cyber space, no? I like how the strokes follow the contours of the image - did you make a custom brush strokes file first? If so was it with Photosketcher?

No, not Photosketcher. I simplified the image first by applying a false interlace to it. Then merged the original image several times to recolor the lines. This gives a tone blending to the horizontal lines in shades of the original image. The brush effects were done in Impressionist using the, Old Master, preset that has been slightly modified. Brush strokes, yes a never ending challenge so it seems. One of the things that irks me the most is that the simple filters blur the image to much. I have seen some really nice effects here at RP though, so know that it can be done.

[secretagents]

Nasturtium, I am using Belousov's Edgecrement plugin for that effect which I apply after applying some smoothing

You can get it here, it's free so there is no reason not to have it :

http://www.unicontel.com/

[secretagents]

Btw, I have made another version using the precedent ones as a start and this time using Mehdi's excellent fine threshold plugin.

[lynn55]

Dear secretagents,

Wow! That great!

I finished to installing Belousov's Edgecrement and Mehdi's fine threshold.

I did not know how to use Belousov's Edgecrement. Help me.

Thank you

Lynn

[secretagents]

Hi, what's the problem with Edgecrement? It is not a difficult filter is it or am I missing something?

Glad you like the pics I made btw

[lynn55]

I took screenshot of Edgecrement and fine threshold display.

They are not good.